Top 5 Favourite Tulips

When to plant tulips
There’s some comfort in knowing that Fergus Garrett, of Great Dixter, plants his tulips on Christmas Day but you might be better advised to plant your tulips over a clear weekend in November (weather permitting ofcourse).

Where to buy Tulips

Regulars of the blog will know we generally buy most of our bulbs online from Peter Nyssen.

5 Must have Tulips 

One of the advantages of keeping a garden blog is that it creates a visual record. It’s simple to look back over posts from the Spring to see what was successful as well as what failed. Here’s five tulips I’ll be growing again this year :

Tulip Barcelona

Tulip Clusiana Cynthia – yellow with subtle red exterior

Tulip Ballerina

Tulip Purple Dream

Tulip brown sugar